What's the difference between bluefin and tuna?

Bluefin


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
  • (2) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
  • (3) The Liberal party received $320,000 in political donations from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association in the 2013-14 financial year.
  • (4) Three pepsinogens (pepsinogens 1, 2, and 3) were purified from the gastric mucosa of the North Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynuus orientalis).
  • (5) Bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi turned up off the coast of California just five months after the Japanese nuclear plant suffered meltdown last March, US scientists said.
  • (6) About two-thirds of the world's tuna comes from the Pacific, but bluefin tuna accounts for only about 1% of this.
  • (7) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
  • (8) The hemoglobins of bluefin tuna, carp and man are compared and their different physiological properties are discussed in relation to the sequence data.
  • (9) Twitter has also acquired social TV analytics startups like Trendrr, Bluefin Labs and SecondSync, some of which had been trying to help the TV industry make sense of data from both Twitter and Facebook.
  • (10) A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday found bluefin tuna contaminated with radiation believed to be from Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese nuclear reactor which blew up in March 2011.
  • (11) Tiny amounts of caesium-137 and caesium-134 were detected in 15 bluefin caught near San Diego in August last year, according to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
  • (12) A higher homology has been found with the alpha-chain sequence of the non-poikilothermic bluefin tuna.
  • (13) The fishing industry, for example, is likewise threatening the survival of many species of fish, including its latest victims: the Pacific bluefin tuna and the Chinese pufferfish.
  • (14) Across Europe, catch limits were imposed on bluefin tuna in 2010, although they have since crept upwards as stocks began to recover.
  • (15) In the case of the bluefin tuna myoglobin TNS adduct these movements were not detected, indicating that the relaxation processes differ in the two types of myoglobins.
  • (16) Tiny amounts of caesium-137 and caesium-134 were detected in 15 bluefin caught near San Diego, in California waters, last August.
  • (17) The hemoglobins of bluefin tuna are adapted to these conditions by their endothermic oxygenation, thus contributing to the preservation of the body energy.
  • (18) While attention is often drawn to iconic species threatened with extinction – the IUCN report highlights the vulnerability of the Pacific bluefin tuna among others – it also chose the demise of the tiny snail as an example of the damage being done by the extractive industry.
  • (19) Eight weeks after BP's well ruptured, the full impact on marine life became increasingly visible with images of dead and dying hermit crab and brown pelicans trapped and weighed down in dark syrupy oil while spawning of Atlantic bluefin tuna is threatened in the Gulf of Mexico – only one of two places in the world where this happens.
  • (20) the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), which has a muscle temperature 12-17 degrees C higher than its environment.

Tuna


Definition:

  • (n.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
  • (n.) The tunny.
  • (n.) The bonito, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
  • (2) The methanol-ammonia (20:1) and chloroform-methanol-ammonia (2:2:1) systems, used with silica-gel plates, are the most promising for rapid preliminary screening of tuna fish extracts for histamine.
  • (3) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
  • (4) Immunological properties of the tuna glucagon were analyzed by radioimmunoassay, showing a high degree of cross-reactivity with the 30K antibody.
  • (5) On the other hand, introduction of the mixed protein into a diet based on flour plus tuna sterilized at 115 degrees C for 90 minutes, was not capable of maintaining the optimum patterns for weight evolution.
  • (6) In quiescent BAECs, tuna AI (1 microM) apparently induced c-myc and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) A-chain messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expressions within 30 min, which persisted for 6 h. In contrast, captopril induced a very low expression of c-myc mRNA, and had no relation to PDGF A-chain mRNA expression.
  • (7) The levels were 10 times higher than those found in tuna in the same area in previous years, but still well below those that the Japanese and US governments consider a risk to health.
  • (8) Three foods were preferred by case patients more frequently than by control patients: tuna fish, chicken salad, and cheese.
  • (9) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
  • (10) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
  • (11) The ATPase activity of tuna dorsal HMM was found to be very similar to that of rabbit skeletal HMM in many respects: KCl concentration dependence, pH dependence, effect of pCMB, kinetic parameters (Vmax and Ka) in actin activation, and Arrhenius activation energy.
  • (12) It is concluded that changes in pH following temperature changes can be accounted for solely by the passive, in vitro behaviour of the chemical buffer system found in the blood, so that active regulatory mechanisms of pH adjustment need not be postulated for skipjack tuna.
  • (13) The ion binding properties of horse, bovine, and tuna cytochrome c (both oxidized and reduced) have been measured using a combination of ultrafiltration, neutron activation, and ion chromatography.
  • (14) Midway through a mouthful of tuna sashimi, I confess I struggle to see her as, well… "A musical actress?"
  • (15) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
  • (16) The larger width of lifetime distribution observed for TNS bound to tuna apomyoglobin was related to a more extended conformational space accessible to the fluorophore in this protein compared to sperm whale myoglobin.
  • (17) Both those stores, the group said, offered pole-and-line caught tinned fish and had said they were committed to improving the sustainability of their fish, but the majority of their tuna was caught using the purse seine method.
  • (18) A novel inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) has been discovered and isolated in a pure form from acid extract of tuna muscle by successive column chromatographies and HPLC.
  • (19) Shrimp, canned tuna and salmon are the top choices .
  • (20) The sites in oxidized cytochromes c are the COOH-terminal sides of Tyr-48, Phe-46 and Tyr-46 for horse, rabbit and tuna cytochromes c, respectively.

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